i. am here in moscow this is r t tonight war waste and wages spell out israel's choices in a parliamentary election under way right now this vote is expected to forge an even more hardline government. the israeli settlers flock to the polling booth to push where they think the country's borders should lie we hear about the bargain hunters spearheading the charge into occupied lands. half a century of cooperation taken with a pinch of salt german and french leaders on a fifty years of the post-war alliance and with sharp political and economic divides casting a shadow over the celebration. and a complete information blackout american citizens are spied upon by their own f.b.i.

but the bureau refuses to explain who they are tracking or why individuals have being targeted. hello kevin owen here at the new center tonight thanks for being with us our top story tonight nine pm moscow time israel's reporting a record turnout with millions queuing at ballot boxes nationwide for the snap parliamentary election but few doubt who will win with predictions of an even more right wing and hard line government at the core of the vote a three issues rocketing living costs the rands nuclear ambitions and the peace deadlock with the palestinians owing to his uncompromising stance prime minister benjamin netanyahu is expected to not only hold on to power but solidify sway over israel with strategic alliances polls in publications in general agree that it's at the center and the left leaning party sides who are expected to be the net loses.

co-chairman of the israel palestine research and information center he holds little hope for progress towards peace with palestine now. since the government of israel hasn't done anything to move the peace process forward in the last four years we shouldn't expect any change the government will continue to hold to its position that there is no partner on the palestinian side that the leadership of mahmoud abbas is not a leadership which wants peace in the eyes of the israeli government and therefore the israeli government will attempt to keep the status quo in place which has been rather comfortable for israel we have had no real terrorism there's no uprising taking place in the palestinian territories the separation of the west bank and gaza has played into israel's interest and i think that the government of israel will seek to preserve the status quo for as long as possible the question is whether or not the international community will move beyond words in its isolation policies of israel if there will be economic sanctions or other political sanctions that we've yet to seen but i think that an increasingly hardline israeli government

will push the international community toward more isolationist policies toward israel. well one of the most pressing and divisive issues is this election's been settlement's a theme that the writers campaigned on tirelessly indeed but what my own perspective to the issues infiltrating the ranks of diehard settlers will make an inroad came of them from sprint documentaries or just this my name is me more than is really citizen living here among. you one housing crisis at all time high the thing is there is another new one in jerusalem but i can also live among our allies and i think i can get there much better deal with the wise over the. would like to see the flood to buy i'm here with some investors from england. we want to invest in this area because i'm hearing the property value might go up to

one flat is one million shekels his father's flat in the building that this whole new area called zero eight and he one begins after despite a few haters in the us almost all these really critical parties support the building and selling of charming flats on palestinian land the latest talk location he won east of jerusalem hello i'm here to show a new client wants to buy property in this area is a big one investor understand is the only building now currently built but if i can show him more. hills more outposts. and no one except occupation two state solution who cares as long as the property is cheap is a jew man living in london i want to cash in on my jewishness and i be in touch with my roots. so it's all jewish yeah yeah any non jewish part because.

not from here many people say he is not being constructive in the peace process but look how many settlements it constructed i'm hoping. to build a new settlement. this is the future for israel i believe and i'm afraid that if i buy the house and i get a document saying it's mine some day palestinians can scam and say no it's not yours because i keep listening to that in the u.k. . you see. there's history. there's just one thing and. it's funny how those small actions have like international meaning. the moving of stones like monumentally. it's like messing with international law. this is the most disputed area you never noticed it just because people told us. but he says it is

a good place to build new friends if it will be like because my friends want to be like to buy something before we even constructed i was coming up and. it says this is the fail stone being set for the new god willing of the one facing the holy capital of his i pay so much money for rent in london anyone in london and here anyone in the big city thing is cheaper and more comfortable it all starts here so beautiful all of us is ours. you can look down and palestinians this is the new area being built opens if you want i just call this real estate it's called how doll three they sell all the flats in this part of town and they say no to see them and it will never be evacuated today selling more and more how come all the cleaners of the city and all the bills are you should be jewish labor . should. i want to see it going to the

state agent to get to the for the legalities. of. selling your house by any chance it. will do in my life. well but earlier my colleague talked to the man behind the film about his real

estate to through occupied territories nimrod came and painted a very opportunistic picture of settlement mentality some of the people i talked to never going to. give up their house. is the heavily. into the settlement of the entire west bank and told me that jordan is also the kind of part of the do it just call the told me that if someone is going to a victim which they don't believe in but if people going to happen they're going to even make more money because the government will pay them compensation for the victims if you just go by if you can sell it to local jewish americans so did you actually buy into this. i mean i money with me and i didn't go all the way there but just got the best deal and i almost bought it because why didn't i it was that if it's such a good deal you can make lots of money presumably yeah i mean. i am

jewish actually not all doing. well thirty two parties are vying for one hundred twenty seats in the knesset and already their leaders are talking coalitions the division of power are going to show you will keep you updated with the news analysis of what they're doing throughout the day and beyond the close of the polls as well which is in fact at eight o'clock g.m.t. how will change with to run develop sensible to expunge just isolate trial there be peace with gaza. what's next in relations with america will listen you know who survive his stuff election on january twenty second. israel decides. also glitz and glass in berlin as german and french leaders celebrate fifty years of their country's alliance but the hugs and handshakes my mask an alternative reality the two are yet to agree on how to cure the eurozone debt contagion or indeed overcome those deep foreign policy divisions assessing whether there are more lows than highs in franco german relations right now is artie's people all

over. well it's certainly a meeting that's filled with pomp and circumstance but they as they celebrate the formalizing of the friendship between former foes but what we are seeing though is that hoping that the celebration can paper over some of the divisions between europe's power couple of course france and germany the two major economies and the well the two biggest voices in europe really when it comes to how to tackle the eurozone crisis all around wants to see more spending to promote growth where is a miracle stuck to her guns saying it's only through austerity that any kind of problems in the eurozone can be fixed now there's also rising concern here in germany over the state of the french economy the german people and german finance is looking to shoulder thinking well we don't want to get caught up to cold if you'll recall and he sneezes it was a expected that the french economy went into recession at the end of twenty twelve

hours also when it comes to matters of defense military might is germany and france not agreeing that friend certainly pursuing a policy of intervention we've seen not in libya we're also seeing that right now in mali where is germany they have said that they were going to contribute any of their troops in this was backed up by. the finance minister here in germany and a key member of anglo merkel's christian democrat party when he said that germany didn't want to be a major player in foreign policy said going on to say that well after hitler and auschwitz how could they be a major player so there is a difference there between how france views its place in the wider world and how germany based on well the two countries relative history so this meeting all smiles and handshakes however that there are some deep underlying cracks in the relationship between europe's power couple. well microsoft's a business professional independent investment fund manager joining me live on the

line at the scotts the legacy of the prospects of the future relations between berlin and paris by their acts good to see you do you share the skepticism when it comes to franco german relations then what's your thoughts on it well it's been an on off thing for a decade aids but basically it's really some of the same thing have seen for certain trees i mean france has had a policy of basically keeping germany down for since louis the fourteenth and of course of the twentieth century you saw i mean if you put this in a fright wider framework it doesn't surprise that the. frictions and also little fissures and of course the economic strength of germany and the concurrent weakness of france doesn't make it any easier you know it is going to get better any time soon. well i don't think it would really get better i mean the ideal moment was right after world war two in the fifty's let's say when there was a lot of enthusiasm for the united states of europe but of course the european

defense community failed in the international national assembly in the fifty's so france itself said we're not going that far and so i think it's going to be a. partnership as it has been was some conflict to us points with some parts of the operation but i do think the basic conflict in economic. ponce and also security policy will will basically overshadow this i chancellor merkel was a vocal supporter of alarms preterists to get on better with nicolas sarkozy we know why in the run up to the election how is that relationship developing now well i think it's better than one thinks because there are certain geopolitical and also assess at least to be followed so mostly the german chancellor the french president have been has found a way to cooperate we know there wasn't very well destroyed and she rocks but then afterwards it went better so normally they learn to play the game and they learnt to deal with each other and really getting on or is it just more of

a show though do you think beyond the seeds. and of course needs to do some show for its domestic audience and the same is true for merkel merkel has to say we're strict in some ways because as a revolt in germany almost against those. monger sums being spent on the so-called preservation of the euro which is not really the case i mean but that's a different thing so yes they have some they have to play to domestic audiences and overall i think they know what they need each other and so they will somehow a get along so how effective actually are they end of the day when it comes to efforts to try and fix the the euro the european economic crises all they really a strong force together. well there's been times when there's been when the french german tandem has been more effective to be sure but this is quite normal there's always been some discussion since so it's not really extremely ineffective but thing is that the overall vision for europe is lacking it's diverging and so we

will not see you make really great progress towards a more unified anytime so business professor independent investment manager thanks ever so much. ok. to be getting european support for its military efforts in mali italy to join britain and offering assistance for the offensive following the deadly hostage crisis in neighboring in which a number of europeans and americans but. also. raising. the break as well. we can we know if you're going to. choose the

consensus you. choose the opinions that you. choose the stories to. choose the access to. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives. with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it they were really good public health campaigns people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to. bring.

americans are being kept in the dark about how and why they're being followed by the nation's security agencies civil liberties group in the u.s. the f.b.i. to spell out what techniques it's using when it tracks citizens but he's got to explains the reply raised more questions than it. everybody knows that the f.b.i. uses all sorts of tracking devices on cars cell phones and whatnot everything that can carry g.p.s. the american civil liberties union filed the request under the freedom of information act asking for the justice department to review the f.b.i.'s guidelines their internal memos as to how and under what circumstances they track people as of now there is no clear understanding among americans of when they will be subjected to tracking possibly for months at a time or whether the government will first get a warrant this is the justice department's response more than one hundred pages of

completely redacted material except for the title so to the question how when and why the government can track its citizens the f.b.i. responded with this takes a lot of ink to print out something like this some artistic souls may think of the painting black squares by live each we're certainly not sure of the artistic intentions of the u.s. justice department or the meanings they put into these black pages but for civil liberties advocates here this is what government secrecy looks like actually it was last month when president obama signed a bill that essentially allows the government to spy on anyone they want under some kind of a general warrant as opposed to an individual words in other words it allows the national security agency to vacuum up as much private communication as possible with something like a promise on the authorities part to be really careful about when and how they look at it but civil liberties advocates argue that the bill of rights is not about the government promises of good intentions but about legal guarantees so president

obama may be very convincing when he talks about individual freedoms we heard the words in his inaugural speech this monday. but here is the f.b.i. version of their freedom. cribbing offs of tasty profits while million struggled to feed themselves that i would return the fire for forcing prices and stoking starvation by exploiting the farming futures market reported r.t. dot com wait for you right now and japan who the elderly is heartless on the face of it at least told dying while the new finance minister says old people cost too much to keep alive wow it's about si dot com. gay rights campaigners of moscow rallied against the so-called gay propaganda law being considered here in russia but their public kissing campaign led to some trouble parties can offer of course several dozen gay rights activists straight

staging a kissing flash mob in moscow right outside the state duma but were interrupted by a group of radical orthodox christians who didn't hesitate to use their fists as you can see to stop them as a result several people were injured including some journalists the police did detain the attackers the protesters said that the rally was against a draft law banning gay propaganda and they say it's really not clear from this draft what propaganda is so they're afraid they're going to have to go underground it's fair to say that it's a tendency in russia for such gay rights rallies to end in skirmishes with radical n.t.t. rights activists but it's not something which only happens in russia just recently we have seen several members of the ukrainian women's group famine attacked in paris by radical anti gay rights activists of the girls at some point even had to run from with the angry crowd and the police had to step in to evacuate them to

safety. some of the world news headlines like car bombs have killed seventeen people and left dozens injured in and around baghdad today police say one of the blast from the busy market in the north of the capital around with at least two soldiers are among those killed twelve more people were wounded two and then earlier in the day a suicide car bombing targeting a checkpoint south of the city killed five and wounded fourteen more according to authorities. in south africa fauzi the press design group plans to merge the region with the poor of neighboring municipality have clashed with police officers fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse demonstrators and the third day of riots there at least three policemen have been injured more than one hundred eighty protesters have been arrested. britain is considering boosting its military assistance for the french combat action against islamist somalis so far it sent two warplanes and says there could be further than just tickle support to move follows a deadly hostage crisis in neighboring algeria which was entirely ation to france's invasion at least thirty seven foreign nationals including french british and

americans killed during the terrorist siege of the gas plant that was stormed by algerian forces at the weekend. after two years of simmering and sometimes violent protests against corruption and inept authorities jordan is finally getting a parliamentary election the king called a vote to appease those demanding change but as of now reports it threatens to push the country further into crisis they need to calm facade here in jordan is a simmering crisis the kingdom has remained relatively stable amid the wave of regimes falling in the arab spring wednesday's parliamentary elections are part of the reform efforts undertaken by the government in an attempt to quell popular dissatisfaction anathema. i'm optimistic that our political system has taken a big step forward if a parliament wants to enjoy respect the very first thing it needs is to be elected as a result of the fair election that's what our future parliament is going to be but

a balanced parliament just something that is highly unlikely to come out of this election it's being boycotted by georgia's most powerful political movement the muslim brotherhood citing a new law that critics claim gives an unfair advantage to regime loyalists the islamists and their allies have branded the elections as worthless. one of the most like why do people take part in the spectacle called the parliamentary elections elections the way they are now and all the pertaining rules the way they are cannot be taken seriously they do not represent the people's will band in many mideast states up until the arab spring jordan's branch of the muslim brotherhood has been a licensed political party for decades but seeing as own contemporaries come to power in egypt and tunisia it is now openly seeking a much larger role but one muslim one of. the muslim brotherhood are boycotting the elections because this lore is not in their interest but other parties are

boycotting the elections because they will be held according to democratic law. there to meet with king abdullah and says that he's serious about reform but there are other threats on the horizon. our main problem is economic unemployment and inflation are rising at the same time that the cost of products is soaring there is considerable unrest among the population was the country has long struggled economically and relies heavily on age from western and gulf donors last november saw an eruption of violence nationwide protests over cuts in food and fuel subsidies one of the conditions imposed by the i.m.f. for a true billion dollar emergency loan and other financial and political comes. cern is the flood of syrian refugees hundreds of thousands have fled to jordan with more pouring over the border every day there are worries that the syrian conflict may follow its people into the kingdom what islam is striving for more power

a tough situation on the border and a dire economic crisis jordan is finding itself caught between a rock and a hard place due to the boycott the elections are unlikely to produce any meaningful change in the one stable kingdom looks to be in for a long period of uncertainty you see count one of our t. amman jordan. coming up just a few minutes or an hour to you how hoff of the age cases in the united states inflicts just one ethnic group african-americans report on out international well after this break. all.

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oh oh. bath to start this strange new disease affecting healthy young americans looks like this period between the first outbreak of a summer night hundred eighty one and i today five not only were people coming down was aids and dying and so forth but nobody knew who had it or who didn't now more than thirty years since its arrival the face of aids looks like this but the social

stigma of this disease lingers persons get educated who but in the back of their mind eight times he may still be a little dirty secret the biggest part of this little secret is its growth across black america as other nations gotten a hold in the african-american community it's it's it's is right here is that spreading out that way described in the african-american community a collective silence has enabled it to spread across gender and sexual orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's black men and black men usually it's black men and black women usually spreading death among ourselves.

both black men down and women are at much greater risk of getting age i.v. compared to their white counterparts youth as well as adults. we began our investigation by looking at men who account for seventy percent of all new infections among blacks but what was surprising is that it's not just men who have sex with men who need to be concerned about hiv. so. i did everything possible to get in this position you know i wanted now that you know the where idea of my life was famous and free so i pretty much got what i was looking for if i'm not mistaken with him p g community woman and i think that's where our first first film went.